87420 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 241 / Monday, December 18, 2023 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. ER24–619–000] 

MS Solar 5, LLC; Supplemental Notice 

That Initial Market-Based Rate Filing 

Includes Request for Blanket Section 

204 Authorization 

This is a supplemental notice in the 

above-referenced proceeding of MS 

Solar 5, LLC’s application for marketbased rate authority, with an 

accompanying rate tariff, noting that 

such application includes a request for 

blanket authorization, under 18 CFR 

part 34, of future issuances of securities 

and assumptions of liability. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest should file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, 

in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 

of the Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214). Anyone filing a motion to 

intervene or protest must serve a copy 

of that document on the Applicant. 

Notice is hereby given that the 

deadline for filing protests with regard 

to the applicant’s request for blanket 

authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of 

future issuances of securities and 

assumptions of liability, is January 2, 

2024. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper, using the 

FERC Online links at http:// 

www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic 

service, persons with internet access 

who will eFile a document and/or be 

listed as a contact for an intervenor 

must create and validate an 

eRegistration account using the 

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling 

link to log on and submit the 

intervention or protests. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

may mail similar pleadings to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 

20426. Hand delivered submissions in 

docketed proceedings should be 

delivered to Health and Human 

Services, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

In addition to publishing the full text 

of this document in the Federal 

Register, the Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

document via the internet through the 

Commission’s Home Page (http:// 

www.ferc.gov) using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. 

Enter the docket number excluding the 

last three digits in the docket number 

field to access the document. At this 

time, the Commission has suspended 

access to the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room, due to the 

proclamation declaring a National 

Emergency concerning the Novel 

Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), issued 

by the President on March 13, 2020. For 

assistance, contact the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202) 

502–8659. 

The Commission’s Office of Public 

Participation (OPP) supports meaningful 

public engagement and participation in 

Commission proceedings. OPP can help 

members of the public, including 

landowners, environmental justice 

communities, Tribal members and 

others, access publicly available 

information and navigate Commission 

processes. For public inquiries and 

assistance with making filings such as 

interventions, comments, or requests for 

rehearing, the public is encouraged to 

contact OPP at (202) 502–6595 or OPP@

ferc.gov. 

Dated: December 12, 2023. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27749 Filed 12–15–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. AD18–6–000] 

Notice of Availability of Revised Final 

Engineering Guidelines for the 

Evaluation of Hydropower Projects: 

Chapter 11—Arch Dams 

On March 14, 2018, the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission issued a 

Notice of Availability of Final 

Engineering Guidelines for the 

Evaluation of Hydropower Projects: 

Chapter 11—Arch Dams. Appendix 11A 

provides an approach to estimate 

erosion of rock downstream of arch 

dams and is applicable to similar 

evaluations at other types of dams. 

Commission staff recently became aware 

of errors in several equations and one 

table in Appendix 11A; this notice 

provides a revised version of Chapter 11 

correcting those errors. 

All information related to ‘‘Chapter 

11—Arch Dams,’’ including the draft 

chapter, all submitted comments, the 

final chapter, and the revised final 

chapter incorporating the revisions to 

Appendix A, can be found on the FERC 

website (www.ferc.gov) using the 

eLibrary link. Click on the eLibrary link, 

click on ‘‘General Search’’ and enter the 

docket number, excluding the last three 

digits in the Docket Number field (i.e., 

AD18–6). Be sure you have selected an 

appropriate date range. The Commission 

also offers a free service called 

eSubscription which allows you to keep 

track of all formal issuances and 

submittals in specific dockets. This can 

reduce the amount of time you spend 

researching proceedings by 

automatically providing you with 

electronic notification of these filings 

and direct links to the documents. Go to 

the Commission’s website 

(www.ferc.gov), select the FERC Online 

option from the left-hand column, and 

click on eSubscription. Users must be 

registered in order to use eSubscription. 

The revised version of Chapter 11 is 

also available on the Commission’s 

Division of Dam Safety and Inspections 

website at: Engineering Guidelines for 

the Evaluation of Hydropower Projects | 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 

(ferc.gov). 

For assistance with any of the 

Commission’s online systems, please 

contact FERC Online Support at 

FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free 

at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, contact 

(202) 502–8258. 

Dated: December 12, 2023. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27751 Filed 12–15–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 3428–205] 

Brown Bear II Hydro, Inc.; Notice of 

Application Tendered for Filing With 

the Commission and Establishing 

Procedural Schedule for Licensing and 

Deadline for Submission of Final 

Amendments 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: New Major 

License. 

b. Project No.: 3428–2050. 

c. Date Filed: November 29, 2023. 

d. Applicant: Brown Bear II Hydro, 

Inc. 

e. Name of Project: Worumbo 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: On the Androscoggin 

River, in Androscoggin County, Maine. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 


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h. Applicant Contact: Matthew Nini, 

Brown Bear II Hydro Inc., (973) 998– 

8171 or email at matthew.nini@

eaglecreekre.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Ryan Hansen at (202) 

502–8074 or email at ryan.hansen@

ferc.gov. j. The application is not ready 

for environmental analysis at this time. 

k. Project Description: The project 

consists of the following existing 

facilities: (1) an 870-foot-long concrete 

gravity dam with an 116-foot-long flood 

spillway containing four 18-foot-wide 

and 26-foot-high vertical lift gates and 

three flashboard sections including 

(from left to right facing downstream) a 

233-foot-long ogee spillway topped by 

38 2-foot-high hinged steel flashboard 

panels, a 167-foot-long concrete gravity 

section topped by 21 2-foot-high steel 

flashboard panels controlled by 

inflatable air bags, and a 349-foot-long 

concrete gravity section topped by 26 

steel flashboard panels ranging in height 

from 1.5 to 1.9-foot-high controlled by 

inflatable air bags; (2) a reservoir with 

a gross storage capacity of 2,000 acrefeet and a surface area of 240 acres at 

the normal full-pond elevation of 98.5 

feet; (3) a 337-foot-long concrete 

retaining wall with a top elevation of 

108 feet leading to the intake structure; 

(4) a concrete intake structure integral 

with the powerhouse, containing two 

vertical slide gates each 33-foot-wide 

and 40- foot-high which are normally 

fully open and protected by trash racks; 

(5) a 105-foot-wide, 145-foot-long 

reinforced concrete powerhouse 

containing two Kaplan bulb turbines 

each with a generating capacity of 10.5 

MW at 28.5 feet net head; (6) an 

approximately 30-foot-high vertical fishlift, four vertical attraction pumps, an 

eight-foot-long and 8-foot-wide hopper 

lift tank, and a viewing room; (7) an 

upstream eel passage system consisting 

of two two-foot-wide, seven-foot-long 

bristled ramps, and an eel trap; (8) a 

downstream fish passage system 

consisting of three entry way gates with 

trashracks, a 36-inch-diameter 

downstream passage pipe, and a 30-footwide, 20-foot-long, 10-foot-deep plunge 

pool; (9) an 850-foot-long, 

approximately 80-foot wide, tailrace 

excavated from the downstream 

powerhouse wall to the State Route 125 

(Canal Street) bridge, flanked by a 200- 

foot-long concrete retaining wall on the 

left and a 230-foot-long concrete 

training wall on the right; (10) a 3,540- 

foot-long, 34.5-kilovolt (kV) 

transmission line leading to the Central 

Maine Power Company’s Lisbon Falls 

substation; and (11) appurtenant 

facilities. Brown Bear Hydro II Hydro, 

LLC has not proposed any new 

construction at the project. The project 

is operated in a run-of-river mode and 

average annual generation from the 

project is 83,911 megawatt-hours. 

l. Location of the Application: In 

addition to publishing the full text of 

this notice in the Federal Register, the 

Commission provides all interested 

persons an opportunity to view and/or 

print the contents of this notice, as well 

as other documents in the proceeding 

(e.g., license application) via the 

internet through the Commission’s 

Home Page (http://www.ferc.gov) using 

the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket 

number excluding the last three digits in 

the docket number field to access the 

document (P–3428). For assistance, 

contact FERC at FERCOnlineSupport@

ferc.gov or call toll-free, (866) 208–3676 

or (202) 502–8659 (TTY). 

m. You may also register online at 

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/

esubscription.asp to be notified via 

email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

n. Procedural Schedule: The 

application will be processed according 

to the following preliminary Hydro 

Licensing Schedule. The need for 

additional tagging and cfd modeling 

studies will influence the schedule 

below. Revisions to the schedule may be 

made as appropriate. 

Milestone Target date 

Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary) ............................................................................................................................................ December 2023. 

Issue Additional Information Request (if necessary) ...................................................................................................................... January 2024. 

Issue Study Modification Determination ......................................................................................................................................... February 2024. 

Notice of Acceptance/Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis (if no studies are needed) .................................................... March 2024. 

Filing of recommendations, preliminary terms and conditions, and fishway prescriptions ............................................................ June 2024. 

o. Final amendments to the 

application must be filed with the 

Commission no later than 30 days from 

the issuance date of the notice of ready 

for environmental analysis. 

Dated: December 12, 2023. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27750 Filed 12–15–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings #1 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric corporate 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: EC24–24–000. 

Applicants: Georgia Power Company. 

Description: Application for 

Authorization Under Section 203 of the 

Federal Power Act of Georgia Power 

Company. 

Filed Date: 12/12/23. 

Accession Number: 20231212–5177. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 1/2/24. 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following Complaints and 

Compliance filings in EL Dockets: 

Docket Numbers: EL24–40–000. 

Applicants: City of Tacoma, 

Department of Public Utilities, Light 

Division Tacoma Power v. California 

Independent System Operator 

Corporation. 

Description: Complaint of City of 

Tacoma, Department of Public Utilities, 

Light Division d/b/a Tacoma Power, v. 

California Independent System Operator 

Corporation. 

Filed Date: 12/12/23. 

Accession Number: 20231212–5029. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 1/2/24. 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric rate 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: ER10–2732–022; 

ER10–2733–022; ER10–2734–022; 

ER10–2736–022; ER10–2737–022; 

ER10–2741–022; ER10–2749–023; 

ER10–2752–022; ER12–2492–018; 

ER12–2493–018; ER12–2494–018; 

ER12–2495–018; ER12–2496–018; 

ER16–2455–012; ER16–2456–012; 

ER16–2457–012; ER16–2459–012; 

ER18–1404–008; ER19–2096–005. 

Applicants: Emera Energy LNG, LLC, 

NS Power Energy Marketing Inc., Emera 

Energy Services Subsidiary No. 15 LLC, 

Emera Energy Services Subsidiary No. 

13 LLC, Emera Energy Services 

Subsidiary No. 12 LLC, Emera Energy 

Services Subsidiary No. 11 LLC, Emera 

Energy Services Subsidiary No. 10 LLC, 

Emera Energy Services Subsidiary No. 9 

LLC, Emera Energy Services Subsidiary 

No. 8 LLC, Emera Energy Services 


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